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MIS Academic Leadership Conference

The 4th Annual MIS Academic Leadership Conference (MALC 2014) will be held in Austin, TX on September 12-13. The goal of the MALC is to provide a forum for academic leaders in MIS to network with and learn from each other. Conference topics will include innovation in information systems (IS), new initiatives to promote IS, and future of IS journals, as well as a keynote panel on opportunities and challenges in IS.

The conference will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin. A Welcome Reception will be held on September 11, 6:30-8:30pm in the AT&T Conference Center Ballroom.

Conference attendees can find more information about hotel room blocks on the Accommodations tab below, as well as various Austin attractions and entertainment on the Austin tab.

Agenda

Thursday, September 11

6:30-8:30pm

Welcome Reception, AT&T Conference Center Ballroom

Friday, September 12

8:30am

Breakfast & Registration

9:00am

Welcome Remarks

9:15am

Session: State of Information Systems (IS)Chair: Alok Gupta, University of Minnesota
Anitesh Barua, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Goul, Arizona State University
Rudy Hirschheim, Louisiana State University
V. (Samba) Sambamurthy, Michigan State University

10:30am

Break

10:45am

Session: Innovation in Information Systems
Chair: Arun Rai, Georgia State University
Alex Tuzhilin, New York University
Munir Mandviwalla, Temple University
Kim Normann Andersen, Copenhagen Business School

12:00pm

Lunch + Keynote by Bob Metcalfe, University of Texas at Austin

1:15pm

Session: Opportunities and challenges in Information Systems
Chair: Huseyin Tanriverdi, University of Texas at Austin
Amit Basu, Southern Methodist University
Ramesh Venkatraman, Indiana University
Ji-Ye Mao, Remnin University
Molly Wasko, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2:30pm

Break

2:45pm

Session: New Initiatives to Promote Information Systems
Chair: Joey George, Iowa State University
Indranil Bardhan, University of Texas at Dallas
Lorne Olfman, Claremont Graduate University
Rich Wilson, Oklahoma State University